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Question
The splitting up of white light into seven colours on passing through a glass prism is called:
(a) refraction
(b) deflection
(c) dispersion
(d) scattering
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Solution
dispersion
The splitting of white light into seven colours on passing through a glass prism is called dispersion.
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